Quotes About Grandparents and Grandchildren

More than 90 Funny and Loving Quotes About Grandparents and Grandchildren for you to enjoy…Share your favorite quotes and use them for Grandparents Day!

Remember the TV Hit Comedy, “Kids Say the Darndest Things” (1998 – 2000)? I’m sure there were some funny quotes about grandparents among them. A thought for a newer version today might be Quotes About Grandparents and Grandchildren commenting about each other…

Read through the many quotes about grandparents and grandchildren, choose your favorite in each category (quotes about grandparents, quotes about grandmothers, quotes about grandfathers, and quotes about grandchildren) and then share them with us. Let’s see which ones are first choices!

Funny (and Loving) Quotes About Grandparents

I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have – if only for self-defense. ~Gene Perret

The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent. ~Sam Levenson

The reason grandchildren and grandparents get along so well is that they have a common enemy. ~Sam Levenson

If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I’d have had them first. ~Lois Wyse

Being grandparents sufficiently removes us from the responsibilities so that we can be friends. ~Allan Frome

What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies. ~Rudolph Giuliani

Never have children, only grandchildren. ~Gore Vidal

I always give my grandkids a couple of quarters when they go home. It’s a bargain. ~Gene Perret

It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us. ~Igor Stravinsky

When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window. ~Ogden Nash

Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being. ~Margaret Mead

To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid. ~Robert Brault

My grandkids believe I’m the oldest thing in the world. And after two or three hours with them, I believe it, too. ~Gene Perret

I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture. ~Susan Strasberg

An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly. ~Gene Perret

“You’re more trouble than the children are” is the greatest compliment a grandparent can receive. ~Gene Perret

I like to do nice things for my grandchildren – like buy them those toys I’ve always wanted to play with. ~Gene Perret

Have children while your parents are still young enough to take care of them. ~Rita Rudner

I don’t intentionally spoil my grandkids. It’s just that correcting them often takes more energy than I have left. ~Gene Perret

More Quotes About Grandparents

The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby’s grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida. ~Dave Barry

I have a warm feeling after playing with my grandchildren. It’s the liniment working. ~Author Unknown

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children. ~Alex Haley

A grandparent is old on the outside but young on the inside. ~Author Unknown

Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven’t thought of yet. ~Gene Perret

It’s amazing how grandparents seem so young once you become one. ~Author Unknown

The history of our grandparents is remembered not with rose petals but in the laughter and tears of their children and their children’s children. It is into us that the lives of grandparents have gone. It is in us that their history becomes a future. ~Charles and Ann Morse

Grandparents are similar to a piece of string – handy to have around and easily wrapped around the fingers of their grandchildren. ~Author Unknown

What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I’d like to say that grandparents are God’s gifts to children. And if they can but see, hear and feel what these people have to give, they can mature at a fast rate. ~Bill Cosby

Two things I dislike about my granddaughter – when she won’t take her afternoon nap, and when she won’t let me take mine. ~Gene Perret

No cowboy was ever faster on the draw than a grandparent pulling a baby picture out of a wallet. ~Author Unknown

I would love to go back and travel the road not taken, if I knew at the end of it I’d find the same set of grandkids. ~Robert Brault

Loving and Funny Quotes About Grandmothers

Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting. ~Author Unknown

Grandmothers are just antique little girls. ~Author Unknown

A grandmother is a babysitter who watches the kids instead of the television. ~Author Unknown

A house needs a grandma in it. ~Louisa May Alcott

When a child is born, so are grandmothers. ~Judith Levy

There’s no place like home except Grandma’s. ~Author Unknown

If God had intended us to follow recipes, He wouldn’t have given us grandmothers. ~Linda Henley

Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you’re just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric. ~Pam Brown

We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me. ~Phyllis Theroux

Grandmas never run out of hugs or cookies. ~Author Unknown

Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day and now the day was complete. ~Marcy DeMaree

Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated. ~Paulette Bates Alden

If your baby is “beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time,” you’re the grandma. ~Teresa Bloomingdale

A grandmother is a mother who has a second chance. ~Author Unknown

My granddaughter came to spend a few weeks with me, and I decided to teach her to sew. After I had gone through a lengthy explanation of how to thread the machine, she stepped back, put her hands on her hips, and said in disbelief, “You mean you can do all that, but you can’t play my Game Boy?” ~Author Unknown

Soon I will be an old, white-haired lady, into whose lap someone places a baby, saying, “Smile, Grandma!” – I, who myself so recently was photographed on my grandmother’s lap. ~Liv Ullmann

My grandson was visiting one day when he asked, “Gramma, do you know how you and God are alike?” I mentally polished my halo while I asked, “No, how are we alike?” “You’re both old,” he replied. ~Author Unknown

A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween. ~Erma Bombeck

Just about the time a woman thinks her work is done, she becomes a grandmother. ~Edward H. Dreschnack

Funny and Loving Quotes About Grandfathers

(We need more grandfather quotes…)

Grandfathers are just antique little boys. ~Author Unknown

Grandfathers are for loving and fixing things. ~Author Unknown

A grandfather is someone with silver in his hair and gold in his heart. ~Author Unknown

Grandchildren don’t stay young forever, which is good because Pop-pops have only so many horsey rides in them. ~Gene Perret

My grandchild has taught me what true love means. It means watching Scooby-Doo cartoons while the basketball game is on another channel. ~Gene Perret

To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word “boo.” ~Robert Brault

The best place to be when you’re sad is Grandpa’s lap. ~Author Unknown

One of the most powerful handclasps is that of a new grandbaby around the finger of a grandfather. ~Joy Hargrove

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. ~Lewis Mumford

Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents. ~William Osler

Quotes About Grandchildren

You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Saying

Our grandchildren accept us for ourselves, without rebuke or effort to change us, as no one in our entire lives has ever done, not our parents, siblings, spouses, friends – and hardly ever our own grown children. ~Ruth Goode

A child needs a grandparent, anybody’s grandparent, to grow a little more securely into an unfamiliar world. ~Charles and Ann Morse

What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars’ worth of pleasure. ~Gene Perret

Grandchildren: the only people who can get more out of you than the IRS. ~Gene Perret

Elephants and grandchildren never forget. ~Andy Rooney

Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap. ~Doug Larson

Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb

Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation. ~Lois Wyse

Do you know why grandchildren are always so full of energy? They suck it out of their grandparents. ~Gene Perret

Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren. ~Art Linkletter

Grandchildren are God’s way of compensating us for growing old. ~Mary H. Waldrip

By the time the youngest children have learned to keep the house tidy, the oldest grandchildren are on hand to tear it to pieces. ~Christopher Morley

On the seventh day God rested. His grandchildren must have been out of town. ~Gene Perret

Do you have quotes about grandparents and grandchildren or an original poem to share on NanasCorner.com? We are seeking new additions to our quotes and poems collections, including alliteration examples. Submit yours to Nana when ready!

Don’t forget Grandparents Day…it’s the second Sunday in September each year.[/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]

Share This Story, Choose Your Platform!

Jersey Shore Grandmother of 5 great kids, retired special ed high school teacher, married since 1972 to Poppy...loves spoiling the grands, crocheting for whomever I can and charities, reading, crafts, outdoors, blogging...and retirement.